Package Manager in Grays

About the Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Package Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, which includes 43 bridges, viaducts, 17 km of complex highway construction, utility diversions and a scheme‑wide, industry‑leading approach to carbon reduction. Balfour Beatty Highways maintains, manages and operates major highway networks across the UK and supports local authorities to create communities where people want to live, work and play.

The Package Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of Topographical, Ground Investigation, Utility Trial and Weathering Steel engineering surveys as part of the Lower Thames Crossing project.

Responsibilities

• Health, Safety & Wellbeing: Maintain a safe working environment by enforcing health and safety regulations and the Construction Phase Plan.
• Programme: Plan all self‑delivered works and coordinate/monitor the programme for subcontractor and 3rd‑party works.
• Project Management: Coordinate with subcontractors, suppliers and other stakeholders to ensure smooth workflow and timely project delivery.
• Quality Assurance: Lead quality management, set required standards and ensure the project team (foreman, engineers, subcontractors, etc.) comply.
• Community: Provide relevant information to the communications team to keep stakeholders and the public informed in accordance with the communications plan.
• Environmental Sustainability & Carbon: Liaise with the Environmental Manager to ensure compliance with the Project’s Environmental Management Plan and carbon requirements.
• Reporting: Provide regular progress reports to senior management, highlight deviations from the plan and propose corrective actions.
• Cost Management: Own the budget and maintain strict control of costs.
• Procurement: Produce technical scopes for tenders and complete tender return assessments for all subcontracts.
• Design Management: Attend design and RFI meetings with the Consultant and subcontractors and manage any resulting changes.
• Handover: Work with the Quality Engineer to ensure handover requirements are clearly defined and understood.
• Leadership: Manage and mentor Section/Site Engineers and Sub‑Agents for your scope of works.

Who We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably on large‑scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Knowledge of construction regulations and best practices.
• Experience with NEC 3 / 4 contracts.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications, Competency & Prerequisites

• Engineering or Construction Management qualification.
• Full UK driver’s licence.
• A fit‑for‑work medical.
• CSCS badge.
• Pre‑Start drug & alcohol test.
• BPSS Security Clearance (completed by the project Security Manager; candidate must supply a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check).

Benefits

• 42 core base hours per week.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Pension savings schemes.
• A host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers, etc.).
• Refer a friend bonus scheme.
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available via our careers portal.
• Smart working, staggered start and finish times, up to 40% remote working (where roles allow).
• Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and create social value for the communities within which we operate.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of identity or background.

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.